Venezuela, Edmundo Gonzalez has repeatedly disrespected the authority of several institutions

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*Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez are responsible for criminal group operations *Edmundo Gonzalez’s lawyer alleges his client is not responsible for false tally sheets publication *Authorities continue investigations into the events that sought to carry out a coup

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00:00And the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, ratified the summons by the

00:04public prosecutor's office to the former presidential candidate of the Venezuelan

00:08ultra-right, Edmundo González, to make statements in relation to a series of crimes he is accused

00:14of, among them his responsibility for the publication on an unofficial web page of fraudulent

00:20electoral records.

00:22We give you more details with our correspondent Luis Guillermo Garcia, let's see.

00:29Prosecutor Tarek William Saab recalled that Edmundo González has repeatedly ignored and

00:34disrespected the authority of several institutions of the Venezuelan state, first of all the

00:38National Electoral Council, by not signing an agreement to respect the results, which

00:43he did not recognize and then endorsed, through different means, the publication of false

00:48minutes in an electronic media, accusing the electoral power of fraud.

00:53Then, he disregarded the summons issued by the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court

00:57of Justice to present his arguments and evidence of his accusations and, finally, he did not

01:02appear before the public prosecutor's office, after this agency ordered his presence in

01:07three occasions.

01:13In this sense, as we informed you, the public prosecutor's office ratifies the summons with

01:19the arrest warrant in progress for González Urrutia to be interviewed, and ratifies that

01:24he is requested and must be presented and brought to justice, as it corresponds within

01:29the framework of the Constitution and the law.

01:38The denunciations of electoral fraud made by the ex-candidate of the ultra-right, endorsed

01:43by corporate and political powers of the United States, were followed by multiple violent

01:48acts carried out by groups financed by the extreme right, several of which have already

01:54been ordered by the authorities, who point to Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo González

02:00as those responsible for these criminal operations.

02:08They are the intellectual actors of the death of 27 Venezuelans during the days following

02:12July 28 and of having mortally wounded 190, of which 100 are police and military officials

02:19and of having attacked and destroyed 400 state and also private properties, such as schools,

02:25high schools, universities, health centers, educational centers.

02:34The also president of the citizen power, Tariq William Saab, highlights that Edmundo González,

02:40through his lawyer, José Vicente Jarró, states that he is not responsible for the

02:44publication of the false tally sheets, and that this is the responsibility of the unitary

02:49platform led by Maria Corina Machado.

02:51However, the Attorney General pointed out that it is public, notorious and communicative

02:56that the former candidate proclaimed his supposed electoral triumph based on these fraudulent

03:00publications.

03:01However, the Attorney General emphasizes that the presence of González Urrutia's lawyer

03:06before the public prosecutor's office is a sign that this attorney recognizes the authority.

03:16Edmundo González Urrutia recognizes the Venezuelan institutionality, he recognizes

03:22the public ministry, which has a value for democracy, because indeed, if he presented

03:28himself as the electoral standard bearer of the most extreme right, and even boasts that

03:34he was a diplomat, the least a diplomat should do is to respect the rule of law.

03:40To be in the right if he is required and to present his allegations based on an ongoing

03:45investigation that has been made public.

03:54According to these announcements, the authorities are continuing their investigations into the

03:58various acts that sought to carry out a coup in Venezuela after the July 28 elections,

04:04in which President Nicolás Maduro won.

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